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Private equity 2014: Room for optimism?

by Imad Ghandour

Nouriel Roubini, the famous economist nicknamed Dr. Doom, was predicting the collapse of the world economy in 2013 as he foresaw a perfect “economic storm” for the year. Fortunately, the 2013 storm is turning to an economic spring throughout the globe — the private equity (PE) industry included.   The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and many other countries in the region have maintained positive economic growth since 2009, although such economic track records have received very little credit so far. This economic growth, coupled with political stability, is starting to receive greater recognition from international institutional investors, who are now trickling back to the Middle East and North Africa. Most PE fundraisers have mentioned significant interest from a selected group of avant garde international institutional investors — up from almost zero a couple of years ago.  In light of the Brazilian economic winter and the Indian rupee yoyo, the GCC

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